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Published by Division des Relations Publiques de la Gécamines - République du Zaïre, Belgium, 1977
Seller: Bowman Books, Wooster, OH, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: In Slipcase. Jacques Baeke (illustrator). This rare work is used as promotional literature for the Gécamines company based in Zaïre. Never available for sale, it contains 90 beautiful full- color, full-page, photographs of minerals. The photographs were made by Jacques Baeke (though not named in the publication), at "Gécamines" in Lubumbashi (Congo) from 1964-1979. 50 pp. 90 full-page color photographs of gems and minerals, 121 crystallographic figs. on transparent paper interleaved with the text, index, folding map. Blind- and copper-stamped black cloth. Black cloth slip case. Fine. RARE. This book is over-sized and quite heavy, so it will require additional shipping charges on all international orders.